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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Truthful? At that Psychology Today website, New York University professor Vasant Dhar argues that truthfulness and accuracy are not their creators’ primary concerns.

Here’s a bit from his article:

We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that LLMs are not designed to be truthful, but to ensure that the narrative “makes sense” in any context. Given a context, LLMs are trained to generate what should come next in the developing narrative. Confabulations—plausible- sounding distortions or fabrications—are part of its repertoire, regardless of whether they correspond to truth or facts in our world.

Given the hype about (and the unquestioning faith that some are placing in) AI, I commend it as a timely and worthwhile read.

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